Zusatztext Thank you! Aja Monet. Ava Duvernay Interesting! powerful! at times challenging poetry. Roxane Gay A triumphant collection." O Magazine Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary. Publishers Weekly Starred Review A bold! intimate and powerful collection of poems. Ms. Magazine Aja Monet 's writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems. LitHub Generations of women! fighters all! live and breath in Monet 's poetry this book is a torch in the dark. Frontier Poetry A testament to the brilliance of Black women! from the South Side of Chicago and beyond. Bitch Magazine This might be THE single poetry collection I am most excited about this year. Bustle Aja Monet 's poetry! like her activism! is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity! instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out. The Los Angeles Review My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter turns bodies that have been used as weapons into weapons of liberation. We cannot be contained. Courage Renewal Informationen zum Autor aja monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe´ Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's One to Watch Award. She is the author of The Black Unicorn Sings and the co-editor, with Saul Williams, of Chorus: A Literary Mixtape . She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. Klappentext Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Vorwort Prior to the book's release we will offer free audio downloads of poems Represented by Blue Flower Arts, Monet does dozens of events each year. 100 galleys for pitches to music (Wax Poetics, URB), literary (Poets and Writers), race-oriented (ColorLines) and political outlets magazine in the country) Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Presence at the Association of Writing Programs conference Submission to all applicable poetry awards Promotion through social media: Aja Monet has 11k Facebook fans, 11k Twitter followers, and 11k Instagram followers, Haymarket Books has 11.5k Twitter followers and 16k Facebook fans Zusammenfassung Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism....

“Thank you, Aja Monet.” —Ava Duvernay “Interesting, powerful, at times challenging poetry.” —Roxane Gay “A triumphant collection." —O Magazine “Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review “A bold, intimate and powerful collection of poems.” —Ms. Magazine “Aja Monet’s writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems.” —LitHub “Generations of women, fighters all, live and breath in Monet's poetry… this book is a torch in the dark.” —Frontier Poetry “A testament to the brilliance of Black women, from the South Side of Chicago and beyond.” —Bitch Magazine “This might be THE single poetry collection I am most excited about this year.” —Bustle “Aja Monet’s poetry, like her activism, is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity, instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out.” —The Los Angeles Review “My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter turns bodies that have been used as weapons into weapons of liberation. We cannot be contained.” —Courage Renewal

Vorwort
Prior to the book's release we will offer free audio downloads of poems

Represented by Blue Flower Arts, Monet does dozens of events each year.

100 galleys for pitches to music (Wax Poetics, URB), literary (Poets and Writers), race-oriented (ColorLines) and political outlets
magazine in the country)

Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review

Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Presence at the Association of Writing Programs conference

Submission to all applicable poetry awards

Promotion through social media: Aja Monet has 11k Facebook fans, 11k Twitter followers, and 11k Instagram followers, Haymarket Books has 11.5k Twitter followers and 16k Facebook fans

Autorentext

aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, musician, and cultural worker whose poems sing to us of love, gender, justice, and spirituality. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her writing sways between realms where the poetic is both a prayer and a call to action.

Her debut poetry collection, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, a tribute to women and girls in the pursuit of freedom, earned a 2018 NAACP Image Award nomination for poetry.

In 2023, she released When the Poems Do What They Do, a debut album of jazz and blues poetry. In 2024, she earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album, a testament to her voice, both on the page and in the world.

As artistic creative director for the Voices: A Scared Sisterscape audioplay and campaign with V-Day, monet is part of the global movement to end violence against women and girls. monet is a recipient of the EBONY Power 100 Artist in Residence Award, Tribeca Film Festival's Harry Belafonte Social Justice Award, and the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award.

Klappentext

I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby**
-from "For Fahd"**

Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters, the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.

Zusammenfassung
Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.